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We’re back! Last night we had our first meeting in several months. Carl Franklin presented on Google Platform As A Service: AppEngine. As I spend most of my time in the Microsoft arena it was interesting to see another take on cloud services. This was also enhanced by the fact that Carl had spent a lot of time doing Microsoft platform development prior to his current stint with the Google products. He was able to compare and contrast the to environments which is very helpful as we go to make recommendations ...

The W8 preview is now installed and I am enjoying it. I remember the learning curve of my first unix machine back in the eighties, this ain't that.It is normal for me to do the first os install with a keyboard and low end monitor...you never know what you'll encounter out in the field. The OS took like a fish to water. I used a low end INTEL motherboard dp55w I gathered on the cheap, an 1157 i5 from the used bin a pair of 6 gig ddr3 sticks, a rosewell 550 watt power supply a cheap used twenty buck ...

You might be in an environment where you code is source controlled and where you might have build options to different environments. I recently encountered this where the same code, built on different configurations, would have the website at a different URL. If you are working with ASP.NET as I am you will have to do something a bit crazy but worth while. If someone has a more efficient solution please share. Here is what I came up with to make sure the client side script was placed into the HEAD ...

I was planning for a custom timer job for which i wanted to store some configuration data. Was looking for some best practices, found a useful links on The Hierarchical Object store Store http://www.chaholl.com/arch... Initially was planning for a custom list, but this would make us run a cross site query and the list name and the url should again be kept in some configuration which is an headache to maintain. Hierarchical ...

My first post. Working with Google Analytics (GA). What an incredible tool this is for those that are wanting to know about their site traffic. GA allows the user to drill down to the screen size of any mobile sources that came in contact with his site. The user is even able to know region demographics of visitors and the types of browsers and languages being used. This is a great tool to help determine your target audience and what direction of growth one may be needing to take.GA has Real-Time ...

At http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... O'Reilly are offering a series of books on geo-location at 50% off until April 5, 2012 14:00 PT. HTML5 Geolocation Truly revolutionary: now you can write geolocation applications directly in the browser, rather than develop native apps for particular devices. This concise book demonstrates the W3C Geolocation API in action, with code and examples to help you build HTML5 apps using the "write once, deploy everywhere" model. Along the way, ...

I will begin this in the traditional, blunt fashion that you've come to expect from me. I am an idiot. There. I said it. I'm not a proud man. I can admit when I invoke my inner moron. Now, ask you, why all this build up? Simple, remember that impression of the Visual Studio 11 Beta from last week? You see, it turns out, I didn't install the Visual Studio 11 Beta that was released a few weeks ago. I installed the Visual Studio 11 Developer's Preview from last September. It was a simple mistake. A ...

The new HTML standard is part of a proliferation of challenges and opportunities that developers face today: Browser Wars v2.0 Going back 10 years ago, Internet Explorer could claim 95% of the browser market (http://en.wikipedia.org/wi... Today you have to include IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari to get past the 95% support mark (http://marketshare.hitslin... And this only includes desktop browsers! Safari, the Android browser and Opera all have strong market shares in the mobile/tablet ...

Each child this year seemed to have a Christmas list that included a Mac Book and/or iPad. Since the budget is nearer to stone tablet and chisel this just wasn’t going to be their year. However, I did manage to get a used Google Chromebook for $150 off of Craigs List. AND I LOVE IT! I am completely sick of having to remove all the crap off of my wife’s computer after the kids have been on it. Watching them launch some girly dress up game out of China just gives me the willies. And that’s where this ...

Normally the thumbnails at the new tab page are organized by how often you visited a page. But after removing such a thumbnail by clicking the little gray cross at the right top corner deactivates the logic for this page on the whole. The page is added to an internal black list. So the idea to visited the site often enough newly does not work to show the thumbnail from this page again. So we have to choices: reset the black list remove an entry from the blacklist Reset the black list By removing ...

In last post I am animated virus ? I am discuss about the problem with spell-check in different-2 programs. I clarify that there is hard to be sure about functionality over translation. Now chrome have a solution over this problem. All people can found this feature in chrome canary. in chrome 19 You can enable Google for suggestion the word for misspell word you type. Look at the image. Note that I remove the spellcheck=true attribute for textarea tag to show how it’s work. Now take a look chrome ...

Bob Borchers revealed that the reason a lot of iPhone adverts show the time as 9:42 am on the iPhone was because the iPhone was originally launched at that time.For one of the commercial for the original iPhone, Borchers said the phone number used to demo the Google Map function was genuine and is the actual number number of the Pacific Catch Restaurant in San Franscisco and the last time he was there they still had the iPhone special, which is calamari.http://www.macnn.c... ...

After reading this chapter you should be able to Identify and explain the functions of the core TCP/IP protocols Explain how the TCP/IP protocols correlate to layers of the OSI model Discuss addressing schemes for TCP/IP in IPv4 and IPv6 Describe the purpose and implementation of DNS and DHCP Identify the well-known ports for key TCP/IP services Describe common Application layer TCP/IP protocols Characteristics of TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) TCP/IP is a suite of specialized ...

As a brief interlude from my Concurrent Collections series, I thought I would give an roundup of how the lean startup experiments have been progressing. As you can expect, there's been some good aspects and some bad aspects. The experiments so far After lots of discussions, arguments, posing and ruling out hypotheses, we came up with two 'starter' hypotheses we could test fairly easily: Customers don't agree to send data on how they use SmartAssembly; which features they use, the versions of .NET ...

I just got back from the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 (CES) which was held in Las Vegas. This is a good show for me and the company that I work for as it shows us some of the possible future trends of digital media consumption. Things presented at CES may just come and go and be quickly forgotten, but at the same time, there are definite themes on the conference that companies need to pay attention to. 3D is so yesterday! This was actually the second CES that I have been to and both were focused ...

I’ve been seeing many members in the forums asking how to display a large copy of the image on mouseover. Some of them are displaying the image in a Repeater, GridView or DataList control. I didn’t find any direct solution that shows the scenario they wanted so I thought of writing this post to demonstrate how to go about it. I know there are lot of ways of doing/implementing a solution for this scenario and this is just one them. In this example I’m going to use the DataList control for displaying ...

I presented two talks on windows azure recently. One among them was focusing on Windows Phone 7 app development. The other one was on MVC3 ASP .Net app. The idea was to introduce how Windows Azure can be leveraged in both these exciting platforms. The talk was demo centric; below are the slides and the demo / webcasts recordings links for the same. Talk one- Building Windows Phone Applications with Windows Azure Platform and Visual Studio 2010 Demo included: Creating a Demo application from VS 2010 ...

Its been a while since I've played with Message Queuing and C# and decided that I should reduce that counter.During the simple process of figuring how to follow Microsoft's MSDN directions, I ran into a couple of headaches that could have been solved with a few navigational pictures. To the small number of people that this may help (and my future self when I need to do this again) here are the needed pictures.My journey started out with google and the keywords "installing MSMQ", the first selection ...

I’m not sure I have ever thrown this down in writing. I probably have said this 800 or 900 times, but I think that HTML 5 in SharePoint 2010 sucks. The support is terrible in the two most prevalent web browsers at the enterprise level – Internet Explorer and Firefox. If you can’t even get the video tag to work in IE 9 or the latest version of Firefox then that’s a huge fail for the product with HTML 5. What I think needs to be done in the product to improve HTML 5 support so that we can move towards ...

Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning Google Maps API 3"This book is about the next generation of the Google Maps API. It will provide the reader with the skills and knowledge necessary to incorporate Google Maps version 3 on web pages in both desktop and mobile browsers." ...

Not sure why this is being blocked, must be the word Amazon or maybe the link? So I am posting my review here word for word and hope they unblock it.ReviewGot it yesterday for my anniversary as a gift and was loving it. Great size for a tablet, hardware performs well, screen is good, and it's priced very well. If you want a tablet to read and watch "some" video it's a good purchase, that would be even better if they had TV show and movie rentals like Amazon. It would have gotten 4 starts, but this ...

I have been a member of GWB for a while now, and have really enjoyed it. There is a sense of community and I enjoy some of the feedback and comments I get from other posters as well as reading other community members blogs. Part of the reason of joining GWB was seeing what other people with similar interests were blogging about and interacting with them. What does worry me is lately I have noticed an increase in spam by some of the other bloggers… By spam, I don’t mean reviews of products as blog ...

Note No poker players where harmed during the making of my poker bot. Origin and idea One of my pet projects was a poker bot. This poker bot worked on Pokerstars. It was able to play poker without human intervention. Unfortunately it lost most of the time. The mouse movement was a issue with this bot. To avoid detection i wanted the mouse to move as humanly as possible. So no straight line and at normal speed. After searching on Google and grabing some ideas i have made some code to round the gathered ...

Part of the challenge with HTML5 is understanding the range of different technologies and finding good samples. The following are some of the sites I have found most useful. IE TestDrive http://ie.microsoft.com/tes... A good set of demos using touch, appcache, IndexDB, etc. Some of these only work with IE10. Be sure to click the "More Demos" link at the bottom for a longer list of Demos in a nicely organized list form. Chrome Experiments http://www.chromeexperiment... Chrome browser-oriented ...

Hello, I've been struggling with Google maps till I found that someone implemented a wrapper so that you can use Google Map as an ASP.Net user control which is a great effort indeed. You can download it from this link. However, after using it for a while, I've found out that it is storing the Google map object only once in the session and getting it from there whenever needed which was a problem for me that when you update the map in some page, you'll find it updated on another page. So, I've digged ...

One of the groups that I am currently President of (IASA Kansas City) is hosting an event by Rachel Hack (Google Community Manager) about the Google Fiber Project in Kansas City. The event will be hosted at Balance Point’s office off 92nd and Ward Parkway on the Missouri side of the state line. If you are interested, please check out further details here and get registered. It is after work hours from 6 to 8 PM on the night of November 29, 2011. It is free to attend and open to anyone who gets registered. ...

There’s been a lot of discussion around Scott Hanselman’s recent blog post around profanity in presentations. He discusses whether the use of profanity is appropriate in conference presentations, and the feedback through comments and the Twitterverse are varied. Some say its ok, others say it isn’t. Everyone seems to be discussing about the presentation itself, the “artistic license” that presenters are granted when creating their presentation. I wanted to give a different take on the subject – the ...

In trying to comparing complex objects to confirm a unit test, I thought rather than going through the hassle of trying to implement IComparable or overriding .Equals that perhaps reflection would be a better means. A quick google search turned up some useful code that compares via reflection. This was close to what I wanted but I thought it’d be better to have it available as an extension method and I needed it in vb.net (excuse the horror) so this is what I came up with: <System.Runtime.Compiler... ...

I have always been a fan of Google Reader. I have been using it since it first came out and have never tried another feed reader. Yesterday they decided to update the UI to fit their new G+ look and in my opinion, made the application almost impossible to use. I have three main machines I use on a daily basis. A Dell XPS desktop with dual 24 inch monitors, a Toshiba Protégé with a 13 inch display, and a 11 inch MacBook Air. When I am at my desk all day, the Dell is awesome for getting development ...

Error: There is a temporary failure. Please retry later. (The request failed, because you exceeded quota limits for this hour. If you experience this often, upgrade your subscription to a higher one). Additional Information : Throttling due to resource : Connections." If you Google this issue, you only find different blogs and forums where geeks discussing this issue and giving suggestion to each other. Even when I counter this issue I also review my application architecture and I re-write the Azure ...

I may be a bit slow on the uptake here, but I'm not sure how excited to get about my social networks influencing my search results? I think it's good that you can indicate you like something on Facebook as your friends can have a look at the item or choose to ignore it, and I guess it makes sense that if you like something, then some of your friends will like the same thing. But when I do a Google search, do I *really* want it to show bias towards things my friends have liked? Also, how many clicks ...

.Net has several methods of serialization and sometimes it causes a lot of confusion even for experienced programmers. I believe the best article to describe the different methods is Aaron Skonnard’s Serialization in Windows Communication Foundation(MSDN Magazine > Issues > 2006 > August) (by some reason it’s not highly rated by Google and other articles are coming first for Serialization related requests) There is also a brief comparison table in StackOverflow What are the differences between ...

I've just installed the Windows 8 Developer Preview. These are some first impressions: Installation of the preview was quite smooth and didn't take too long. It took a few minutes to extract the files onto a virtual image, but feature installation then seemed to happen almost instantaneously (according to the feedback on the screen). The installation routine then went into a preparation cycle that took two or three minutes. Then the virtual machine rebooted and after a couple of minutes more preparation, ...

So I’ve played with the developer preview of windows 8 today. I’m trying to like Metro. But, at least on the desktop, it feels wrong. In fact, its not really windows anymore. In the sense “windows” are less in favour compared to full screen apps. It really should be called Boxes 1.0 I played around a bit with the new visual studio with metro templates….. great tools as usual. But…designing metro apps feels like a subset. The variety of apps in the windows world would find it hard to translate into ...

Recently I attended Microsoft HTML5 WebCamp where I had a chance to get insights on all new features HTML5 has to offer. Couple things to mention: - Canvas - a new HTMl5 feature that uses JavaScript to draw bitmap graphics on a web page. Simple approach (less JS coding) makes this interesting: empty space is treated as a painter canvas and a painter brush is replaced with JavaScript. - SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is another graphic tool widely publicized. It is not new, it has been around for ...

Recently I used Entity Framework 4.1 with Code First approach and step on a hidden rake. My application should create an SQL Server CE database file using supplied model classes. I created some model classes, one of the classes was declared as namespace MyProject.Models { public class Object { public int Id {get; set;} public String Name {get; set;} } } Then, I tried to declare property of DbSet<MyProject.Models.O... type in my class derived from DbContext: namespace MyProject.Models { public ...

I am a reformed former JavaScript hater. In the 90s and early 2000s I muddled through JavaScript compatibility issues, poor performance and a lack of development & debugging tools. When ASP.NET came out, promising to hide me from the complexity of browser incompatibilities, I fully embraced server-side web development. This approach may have worked in 2002, but it does not today. The world's expectations have been reset by Ajax, Google Maps, mobile web sites, high performance JavaScript engines, ...

I’m on vacation this week, and I didn’t intend to write a blog post. But after the sea changes in the mobile computing industry and, ironically, my extra time to ponder it, I really couldn’t stay silent. In the space of four days, Google may have effectively taken Android “private” and HP seems to have euthanized webOS in public. It’s really hard to believe all of this is happening. But we can at least have a go at understanding what it means and what might, or might not, come next for Microsoft ...

Microsoft isn’t the only one who seems to be pushing native computing once again. We’re now seeing Google at the same table with the current beta release of Chrome. Yes, Chrome now supports native applications to be embedded in a web site and it’s just like embedding JavaScript. More information can be found in here: http://chrome.blogspot.com/... The native client SDK runs a sandbox environment which means Chrome handles security of the module just like ...

Recently I was working on a project where I needed to implement mapping functionality - I am not new to mapping technology, as a matter fact, a few years back I created my own Winform mapping control which interfaced with yahoo and ArcGIS maps which works great in some of my apps, however, I was looking for something more and didn’t want to re-invent the wheel – so to speak. I stumbled upon GMap.NET and as one user put it, “Absolutely fantastic piece of work”. The only thing lacking is proper documentation. ...

CTEs or common table expressions can be used to make recursive SQL stantements. CTEs are ANSI-99 standard. Please read www.sql-server-performance.... for more information. I have only had 2 instances in my career where CTEs made sense for me to use in a pratical setting. If you have found them more practical, please share. The first time I needed a CTE I was displaying corporate branches from a recurssive table. Some branches had branches, which had branches, and so on, whereas ...

I just got back from Microsoft’s 15,000 attendee-strong Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Los Angeles, and I have to say, the company and its partners are pumped. How can this be, given the number of people who have written Microsoft’s eulogy of late? If Amazon owns the cloud, if Apple owns the consumer, if Google owns search, if Cisco owns unified communications, if EMC/VMWare owns virtualization, if Oracle and SAP own ERP and if Oracle/Siebel and Salesforce.com own CRM, how can Microsoft be ...

The message may also say something line: Unable to update app: Error posting to URL: https://appengine.google.co... 409 Conflict Another transaction by user Your.Name is already in progress for app: your-appName, version: x. That user can undo the transaction with "appcfg rollback". Basically this means that in the midst of your previous deployment of the application, the process was interrupted. The Google SDK interprets this as a deployment ...

The "scour" or Rootkit.Win32.TDSS virus has a long history which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... Here is the primary symptom: after searching for something in your web browser using google, one of the results that you click on redirects you to scour.com. If you've executed ClamWin, Malwarebytes, McAfee, Norton, etc. to find and isolate the virus without any luck--this isn't really a surprise, since this virus attaches to existing system drivers. I only know of one reliable package ...